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UKVI News and Updates- Guidance: Register of licensed sponsors: students
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- Guidance: Single protection interview: caseworker guidance
- Guidance: Information booklet for asylum applications
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- Guidance: Pakistan: country policy and information notes
- Migration transparency data
- Form: Information for your immigration bail reporting appointment
- Guidance: Document checks and charges for carriers
- Guidance: Sponsor a seasonal worker
- Global Corporate Law
- Key Features of the Singapore Convention on Mediation
- What is the test for a ‘one man company’?
- LIBOR: The Final Nail in the Coffin?
- Banking and Misconduct: A Critique of the Cure of Culture
- Court of Appeal Opens the Door to LIBOR and Benchmark Misrepresentation Claims
- Habib Bank Expelled From New York
- Supreme Court: Equity’s Darling and Guidance on Enforceability of Trusts where the Institution is Unknown
- Conduct Costs on the Rise (2012-2016): No End in Sight
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Law on Security and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitration Awards
- FSMA and Third Party Rights: Victory for FCA in Supreme Court
- Immigration News
- Shabana Mahmood hints she could water down plans on leave to remain
- Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – as it happened
- Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
- UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
- Facing up to the threat that Reform poses to our democracy | Letters
- UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
- ‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
- Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
- Ukrainians in UK fear homelessness over host scheme funding cuts
- Londoners get £3bn a year subsidy because structure of council tax biased against north, says thinktank – UK politics live
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Category Archives: Families
Family life is unitary in nature: KF (Syria) overturned by Tribunal
Al Hassan & Ors (Article 8: entry clearance: KF (Syria)) [2024] UKUT 234 (IAC) (04 July 2024) The Upper Tribunal has held that the jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights is primarily territorial, but as observed in SSHD v … Continue reading
Supreme Court dismisses deportation appeal of settled Iranian national who lawfully entered the UK as a child
Sanambar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] UKSC 30 (16 July 2021) The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Mr Sanambar’s appeal and held that the Upper Tribunal correctly approached the balancing exercise required by article 8 of the ECHR and it … Continue reading
Posted in Appeals, Article 8, Asylum, Automatic Deportation, Deportation, ECHR, ECtHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Iran, Public Interest, Removals, Settlement, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Üner, Case Law, Court of Appeal, Immigration Rules, Maslov, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Extortionist visa application fees caused “colossal interference” with Windrush victim’s right to family life
Mahabir & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1177 (Admin) (06 May 2021) Mrs Lynda Mahabir came to the UK as a baby aged two months in 1969. She lived in the UK until 1977 … Continue reading
Strasbourg finds Nigerian man’s deportation violated article 8
Unuane v United Kingdom – 80343/17 [2020] ECHR 832 (24 November 2020) In the case of Mr Unuane, a Nigerian national, who had been deported from the UK after a conviction for offences relating to falsification of immigration documents, the … Continue reading
Jamaican father of four British children wins in Court of Appeal
KB (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1385 (28 October 2020) The Court of Appeal has held that FTTJ Gurung-Thapa had not erred in law by allowing a foreign criminal’s deportation appeal when she … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Automatic Deportation, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Jamaica, Public Interest, s 55 BCIA, Spouses, Tribunals, UKBA
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, Immigration Rules, Spouses, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Pakistan and Child Abduction: Lahore High Court holds ‘Hague Convention is not an extradition treaty’
Pakistan is notorious for child abduction. In the case of Sumayyah Moses v SHO and Others (Writ Petition No. 74048 of 2019) PLD 2020 Lahore 716, the Lahore High Court explained that the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International … Continue reading
Posted in Cases, Child Abduction, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Court of Appeal, Expert Evidence, Extradition, Families, Family Court, Foreign law, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, Inherent Jurisdiction, Islam, Judicial Review, Lahore High Court, Nationality, Pakistan, South Africa
Tagged Case Law, Child Abduction, Children, Court of Appeal, Hague Convention, Pakistan, Spouses
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Lahore High Court ruling on Pakistan and Child Abduction
In Abid Hussain (Petitioner) v Rukhsana Munir and others (Respondents) 2020 YLR 1533 Lahore, Miss Aalia Neelum J directed Pakistan’s police authorities to produce two Dutch girls of Pakistani origin, who had been abducted by their own mother and then taken … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abduction, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Divorce, Families, Family Court, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, Judicial Review, Lahore High Court, Netherlands, Pakistan
Tagged British Nationality, Case Law, Child Abduction, Children, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Removals
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“Unduly harsh” and “very compelling circumstances”: Court of Appeal signals simplified approach in deportation cases
AA (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1296 (9 October 2020) The Court of Appeal has yet again examined KO (Nigeria) v SSHD [2018] UKSC 53, discussed here, and the meaning of “unduly harsh” and … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Court of Appeal, Deportation, ECHR, Families, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Nigeria, Proportionality, Public Interest, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Nigeria, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Lahore High Court ruling on forced conversion to Islam
In Nasira v Judicial Magistrate and 5 others Writ Petition No. 45156 of 2019/PLD 2020 Lahore 489, the Lahore High Court granted a petition under Article 199 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 by a Christian woman called Nasira where she sought … Continue reading
Posted in Article 9, Asylum, Children, Conversion, ECHR, Families, Foreign law, Guardianship, India, Islam, Lahore High Court, Pakistan, Persecution, Tribunals
Tagged Asylum, Blasphemy, Children, Pakistan, Pakistani Christians, Persecution, Tribunals
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Court of Appeal clarifies asylum bars in child abduction cases
G (A Child: Child Abduction) [2020] EWCA Civ 1185 (15 September 2020) The Court of Appeal has held that Lieven J (the High Court Judge) had been wrong to stay proceedings on the basis that there was a bar to … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Child Abduction, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, High Court, Immigration Rules, International Law, Lady Hale, Pakistan, Refugee Convention, Removals, South Africa, Spouses, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Brexit, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Dependants, ECHR, Pakistan, Persecution, Spouses, UK Supreme Court
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Court of Appeal reviews the meaning of “unduly harsh”
HA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1176 (04 September 2020) The appeals of HA and RA, both Iraqis, concerned the terms of Part 5A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (especially … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Automatic Deportation, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Immigration Rules, Iraq, Lady Hale, Parliament, Proportionality, Public Interest, Removals, Spouses, Tribunals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, British Nationality, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Refugee Convention, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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How do Pakistani courts approach child abduction cases?
What can be said about the approach taken by the Pakistani courts in child abduction cases? Little is known about this topic and of course since Pakistan is a new entrant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of … Continue reading
Court of Appeal on Nikah and non-qualifying ceremonies
HM Attorney General v Akhter & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 122 (14 February 2020) This was an important judgment which was given earlier in the year. The Court of Appeal held that an Islamic ceremony of marriage which was not … Continue reading
Posted in Article 12, Article 8, Divorce, ECHR, Families, Family Court, Human Rights Act, Islam, Nikah, non-marriage, Pakistan, Spouses, UKSC
Tagged Article 12, Article 8, Case Law, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Nikah, Spouses, UK Supreme Court
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NAO report: Home Office is not delivering value for money
The report on Immigration Enforcement by the National Audit Office (NAO) makes poor reading for the Home Office because it “does not yet have a full understanding of how its activities affect the progress those people take through each part … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Appeals, Appendix FM, Article 8, Asylum, Culture, Deportation, Detention, Families, Fees, Hostile Environment, Immigration Rules, NAO, Windrush
Tagged Article 8, ECHR, Immigration Rules, NAO, Spouses, Tribunals
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NRPF regime breaches Article 3 of the ECHR and is unlawful
R (W, A Child By His Litigation Friend J) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2020] EWHC 1299 (Admin) (21 May 2020) The “no recourse to public funds” or “NRPF” condition produces the effect of … Continue reading
Upper Tribunal: Policy on fee waivers is unlawful
In R (otao Dzineku-Liggison) v SSHD [JR/2249/2019], the UT held that the Home Office’s policy on fee waivers, namely the Fee Waiver: Human Rights-based and other specified applications, version 3.0 (dated 4 January 2019), is unlawful. UTJ Blundell took the … Continue reading
Royal Marine gambler with two sons loses deportation battle
LE (St Vincent and the Grenadines) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 505 (07 April 2020) The Court of Appeal has held that section 117C(5) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 applies … Continue reading
Court of Appeal: Section 117B(6) of the NIAA 2002 requires a “fact-finding” approach
Runa v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 514 (08 April 2020) In this appeal Singh LJ accepted, and Baker LJ and Cobb J concurred, the submission that section 117B(6) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Human Rights Act, Immigration Act 2014, Immigration Rules, Proportionality, Public Interest, Removals, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Criminal Offences, ECHR, Immigration Rules, Removals, UK Supreme Court
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